The Beggar's Opera to Which is Prefixed the Musick to Each Song

The Beggar's Opera; to Which is Prefixed the Musick to Each Song

This text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browsers character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change your browsers default font. The music is shown as printed, except that unused lines at the end of the staff have been deleted. The MIDI and PDF versions include minor corrections; details are given at the end of the e-text. Handling of these files depends on your browser; they may open directly, or they may need to be downloaded and opened through a different application. Dead at the age of thirty-one after a sudden operation, Claud Lovat Fraser was as surely a victim of the war as though he had fallen in action. He was full of vigour for his work, but shell-shock had left him with a heart that could not stand a strain of this kind, and all his own fine courage could not help the surgeons in a losing fight. We are not sorry for himwe learn that, not to be sorry for the dead. But for ourselves? This terror is always so fresh, so unexampled. Ihad telephoned to him to ask whether he would help me in a certain theatrical enterprise. Iwas told by his servant that he was ill, but one hears these things so often that one gave but little thought to it beyond sending a telegram asking for news; and now this. Personal griefs are of no public interest, but here is as sad a public loss as has befallen us, if the world can measure truly, in our generation. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 25063
Author: Gay, John
Release Date: Apr 13, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890-1921